From here you can almost see the sea: A response to living in Plymouth

All work is finally finished for the exhibition at Bank Street Arts Gallery in Sheffield!

The exhibition runs from 31st July to 1st September 2012 
and is open Tues-Sat 11am-5pm

The work consists of text based drawings and hand-made books focussing on response, repetition and redaction.

List of work.
'Abbey Place to Zion Street'
'Ten Views'
'All Other Routes'
'Road Closed'
'Diverted Traffic'
'49 Minutes'
'Redaction/Response'

From here you can almost see the sea: A response to living in Plymouth

'Redaction/Response' 2012

'Redaction/Response' are two books of thirty poems which have been redacted from articles in Plymouth Herald newspapers. 

'Redaction shows the original newspaper articles with their redacted text, while 'Response' shows a typed version and the remaining unreacted text which makes up the poems.

With hindsight, I realised that the point of redaction is about the words that have been blanked out, not the ones left to be read. So the title of the work should probably be 'Extraction/Response'. 

However, the theme of a response to living in Plymouth and the process of extracting text, works very well and the large format of the book give them presence. All is not lost!

Cover:'Redaction' 2012

'Redaction' 2012

29 x 35.5cm

Cartridge paper, newsprint paper, ink, bulldog clips.

'Response' 2012

29 x 35.5cm

Cartridge paper, newsprint paper, ink, bulldog clips. 

Poem 23:

Overlooking the 

harbour, I asked

What 

is

special

he said

You

never dream of

the sea

When we first came here

we were in the eye of

the storm

and

we

created conflicts

But he

already

is

looking for a

New

city

From here you can almost see the sea: A response to living in Plymouth

'Forty Nine Minutes' 2012

A list of objects seen on a walk from home to the sea. Printed on tracing paper, the translucent pages suggest a gradual revealing of a view of the sea.

Another part of the response to living in Plymouth. This is a suggestion the the sea (a metaphor for happiness), can almost be seen, which it to say, that actually, it can't be seen, (and that happiness can't be experienced here).

I used a dictaphone to record a continuous stream of verbal commentary on the objects I could see on my walk - a journey of 49 minutes from my house to the waterfront.

'Forty Nine Minutes' 2012

A5

Tracing paper and ink

Inside:'Forty Nine Minutes' 2012

A5

Tracing paper and ink

 Inside:'Forty Nine Minutes' 2012

A5

Tracing paper and ink